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And then I'll read one
last poem, but before I do,

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I want to thank you
all again for coming.

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I do hope we have a few minutes.

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I don't know if that's
part of the format usually,

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but I'd love to have
some discussion with you

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and answer any
questions might have.

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And I also want to
thank my many hosts here

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in Tucson, the Poetry Center,
the Center for Medical

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Humanities at the
University of Arizona,

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and my many new
friends here in Tucson.

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So this is one last
poem, which, again,

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is a poem perhaps
about empathy, and it's

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called "What I Would Give."

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"What I would like to
give them for a change

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is not the usual prescription
with its hubris of the power

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to restore, to cure.

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What I would like
to give them, ill

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from not enough of lying
in the sun, not caring what

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the onlookers might think
while feeding some banana

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to their dogs.

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What I would like to
offer them is this, not

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reassurance that
their lungs sound fine

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or that the mole they've noticed
change is not a melanoma.

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But instead of fear transfigured
by some doctorly advice,

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I'd like to give them my
astonishment at sudden rainfall

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like the whole world weeping
and how ridiculously gently it

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slicked down my hair.

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I'd like to give
them that or the joy

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I felt while
staring in your eyes

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as you learned epidemiology,
the science of disease

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in populations, the night around
our bed like timelessness,

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like comfort, like what
I would give to them."

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Thank you very much.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Thank you.

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Thank you again.